1To John Adams from George Hammond, 28 January 1792 (Adams Papers)
Mr Hammond has the honor of sending to the Vice–President the last Monthly Review, and Gentleman’s Magazine, and will be much obliged to him, if he will have the goodness to return, by the bearer, the last English Newspapers, if he has perused them MHi : Adams Papers.
2To John Adams from George Hammond, 4 October 1794 (Adams Papers)
This letter will be delivered to you by Mr Strickland, a very respectable English Gentleman and a friend of mine, whom, as he proposes making a tour in the eastern states, I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance, and of assuring you, that I shall esteem any attentions and civilities shewn to him as personal favors conferred upon myself— I have the honor to be with the greatest...
3To John Adams from George Hammond, 15 August 1792 (Adams Papers)
The hospitality of this place has not hitherto allowed me an opportunity of fulfilling my promise of visiting you at Braintree. If however you are not engaged on Sunday next, and will allow me the honor of partaking of your family-dinner upon that day, I shall, with great pleasure embrace that occasion of paying my respects to you. Be so good as to present my most respectful Compliments to Mrs...
4To Alexander Hamilton from George Hammond, 12 May 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 10th curt. on Saturday Evening, and the inclosure referred to in it, this forenoon. On this last mentioned paper, which is the report of the first legal officer of the United States in the district of Pennsylvania, and under the impression of which the federal government has deemed it expedient to refer to the State jurisdiction the inquiry...
5To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 5 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of submitting to your consideration copies of certain papers, which I have received from Canada. They contain information that some persons, acting under the authority of the State of Vermont, have attempted to exercise legal jurisdiction within districts now occupied by the King’s troops, and have committed acts of violence on the persons and property of British Subjects...
6To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of stating to you, that I have no information as to the precise situation of Caldwell manor; but from a variety of circumstances I am inclined to believe that Caldwell manor either is situated near to, or forms part of, the town of Alburgh, which town, though on the south side of the 45th degree of latitude, is under the protection and...
7Memorial from George Hammond, 2 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of State the following particulars relative to the capture, in the Bay of Delaware, of the British ship Grange commanded by Edward Hutchinson and bound from this port to Liverpool. On Thursday the 25th. of April last at 11 o’clock A.M. as the Ship...
8To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday. With respect to the non-execution of the seventh article, of the definitive treaty of peace between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, which you have recalled to my attention, it is scarcely necessary for me to remark to you, Sir, that the King my master was induced to suspend the execution of that...
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson. Having this morning received a letter from Richmond, which informs him of the adjournment of the circuit Court of that place, without any decision on the subject of actions brought by British Creditors, he will be much obliged to Mr. Jefferson, if he will have the goodness to acquaint him, whether this circumstance has arisen...
10To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 18 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of seeing you on Wednesday last, I have considered with attention the tenor of your verbal communication of that day in reply to the observations contained in my last letter on the subject of Mr. Pagan’s case. If I understood you rightly, I collected from your statement that Mr. Pagan’s Counsel has used a misnomer, in applying for the revision of his case to a Court which...
11To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arrival in this country, I have passed over in silent disregard many malevolent insinuations upon the subject of the Indian war, which have been repeatedly thrown out against my Country, in the public prints, and have suffered their futility and falsehood to defeat the purposes, for which they might have been fabricated. But when I learn from the papers of this morning, that, in...
12To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 April 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
On the 12th of March last I had the honor of addressing a letter to you on the subject of Mr. Pagan. As you have never acknowledged the receipt of that letter , I am apprehensive it may not have reached you: if that shall have been the case, I will transmit you a copy of it, and am with due respect, Sir, Your very humble servant, RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); in the hand of Edward Thornton, signed...
13To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 28 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing to you (on the 26th of November) a memorial on the case of Mr. Thomas Pagan, I have received from my Court some farther information upon the subject. I therefore flatter myself, Sir, that you will permit me, to recall this affair to your attention, and to express the solicitude, which I must naturally feel, to learn some determination with regard to it. My...
14To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 19 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
As the several points, which have been for the last four months under constant discussion between this government and myself, have involved in them questions of the highest national importance to our respective countries, and demanded an immediate investigation and decision; I have been unwilling to mix with them any other matters, not immediately connected with them, or of a distinct and...
15Memorial from George Hammond, with Jefferson’s Notes, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of representing to the Secretary of State that he has received information from various respectable quarters that a considerable quantity of arms and military accoutrements, which an agent of the French government has collected and purchased in this country, is now preparing to be...
16Memorial from George Hammond, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of informing the Secretary of State that he has received intelligence from his Majesty’s Consul at Charleston South Carolina, that two privateers have been fitted out from that port under French Commissions. They carry six small guns and are navigated by forty or fifty men, who are...
17To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 18 February 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
I should feel a considerable degree of reluctance in troubling you again on the subject of your communication of the 13th curt., were I not solicitous to justify an expression in my answer, which, from the letter I received from you this morning, appears to you exceptionable in point of accuracy. I was induced to regard the assurance of my personal conviction &ca. as a formal one, by the...
18To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 8 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that I have received the inclosed copy of Mr. Shoolbred’s commission, as his Majestys Vice-Consul for the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which he has forwarded under a presumption that a copy would be competent to the purpose of obtaining the recognition of the President of the United States. The particular cases of exigency, which have...
19To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Several communications having at different times passed between you and myself, both in conversation and in writing, on the subject of the prizes made by the French privateers, fitted out in the ports of the United States; I have thought it expedient, for the sake of perspicuity and of avoiding future misunderstanding, to reduce the result of those communications under one point of view, and...
20To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 13 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter dated yesterday, and I cannot conceal from you my surprize at the requisition contained in it—that the President expects from me, as one of two parties specified, that none of the vessels you have enumerated shall “depart until his ultimate determination” respecting them “shall be made known.” I have no wit of controul over any of them: Indeed, one alone excepted ,...
21To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 3 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of informing you that, by the Halifax packet, which arrived here on Wednesday last, I have received a dispatch from my Court, communicating to me his Majesty’s entire approbation of my conduct, relative to my conversations and explanatory correspondence with you, on the subject of the circular notification which I transmitted to you on the 12th of April. Having obtained this...
22To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 8 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday; and I desire you to be assured that I entertain a proper sense of the principles of Justice, which have dictated the President’s determination, of “excluding from all further asylum in the ports of the United States the vessels that have been armed therein, to cruize on nations with which the United States are at peace,” and of...
23To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of this date, I cannot avoid expressing to you my concern at your not having deemed it expedient to return a definite answer to the questions, which I had the honor of submitting to you in my letter of the 14th. curt., and which appeared to me extremely plain and obvious in their import. As an individual, I am not interested in any measures which the...
24Memorial from George Hammond, 4 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of representing to the Secretary of State—that since the 12 of July last, a very considerable French fleet has arrived in the ports of the United States—that of this fleet several ships are now cruizing in the adjacent seas—but that the principal part of it, consisting of two ships of 74 Guns...
25To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 26 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and begs leave to assure him that he has felt equal regret with him at the circumstances, which have hitherto prevented their meeting. In conformity to Mr. Jefferson’s obliging proposal Mr. Hammond will have the honor of waiting on him tomorrow, at any hour that he will have the goodness to appoint. Mr. Hammond is extremely...
26To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day had the honor of receiving your letter, dated the 9th. curt., in answer to my memorials of the 4th. and 6th. of this month. As there appears to subsist an essential difference between us, on a matter of fact, I esteem it necessary for my justification, to assure you that my statement, of the establishment of a regular succession of cruizers , from the French fleet stationed at...
27To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 2 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 29th ulto., which I shall transmit, without delay, to my court, for the consideration of his Majesty’s Ministers. The matter, contained in your letter, being so various and extensive, I fear that much time must elapse, before I can be enabled to communicate to you my observations upon it. You may however be assured, that I...
28To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acquainting you that, in consequence of the requisition contained in your letter of the 10th: curt:, I have communicated the subject of it to his Majesty’s different Consuls in the United States; and have directed them to pursue such measures as may be the best calculated for facilitating the object of the regulation, to which your letter refers. I have the honor to be,...
29To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of yesterday. In conformity to your recommendation I have instructed the parties interested in the British brigantine Catharine to adopt without delay in the district Court of New York the proper legal measures for the support of their rights and for the recovery of their property. I desire you to be persuaded, Sir, that I entertain...
30To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 14 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of yesterday, I can only repeat what I have before stated, in my first conversations with you after my arrival, and subsequently in my letter of the 6th. of this month; viz, that I have no special Commission, empowering me to conclude any definitive arrangement upon the subject of the commercial intercourse between Great Britain and the United States: But that I...
31To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 13th. curt:, I have the honor of informing you that I have not yet received such definitive instructions, relative to your communication of the 29th. of May 1792, as will enable me immediately to renew the discussions upon the subject of it, which have been for some time suspended. I can however repeat with confidence my conviction, that the continuance of the...
32Memorial from George Hammond, 10 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of state the annexed depositions, relative to the capture, by the armed Schooner, fitted out at Charleston, named le Citoyen Genêt, of the British Brigantine, the Prince William Henry from Baltimore to Barbadoes, and of the British brigantine the lovely Lass...
33Enclosure: Table of British Import Duties, 15 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Table shewing the discrimination of duties upon certain articles imported into Great Britain from the United States and from all other foreign countries. Column 1st. marks the duties on importations, from the United States or British colonies in vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States or to British subjects. Column 2nd. duties on importations from other foreign countries in...
34To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter of yesterday, and though the circumstances of Mr. Crousillat’s complaints are not quite of so exceptionable a nature as those alleged in Mr. Lemaigre’s former statement, relative to the Suckey, I shall nevertheless willingly give to any Agent, whom Mr. Crousillat may appoint, a letter for the Governor of Jamaica, similar to that which I gave to Mr....
35To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 12 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of this day, I have the honor of observing that I have no other instructions upon the subject of my communication than such as are contained in the circular dispatch, of which I stated the purport in my letter dated yesterday. I have however no difficulty in assuring you, that the result of my personal conviction is, that the determination of his Majesty’s government...
36Memorial from George Hammond, 26 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of State the annexed deposition of Michael Pile, late Master of the British brigantine Fanny and the protest of the said Michael Pile and part of the crew of the abovementioned vessel. From these papers it appears that on the 8th. of May last the British...
37Memorial from George Hammond, 7 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of State the accompanying deposition ; from which it appears that on the 6th. ulto., the British brigantine Pilgrim from Nanticoke in Maryland bound to Barbadoes was captured by the French Xebeck privateer, le Sans Culotte of Marseille, at the distance of two...
38To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 23 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of our conversation of this morning, I have made the necessary enquiries relative to the Sloop Hope of Antigua Captain William John Richardson, and I learn that that vessel was captured, on her passage from St. Bartholomews to Norfolk, near the capes of Virginia, on the 10th. day of August last by the privateer le Citoyen Genet—was sent into this port, where she arrived on the...
39Memorial from George Hammond, 7 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, has the honor of acknowledging the receipt of the Secretary of State’s two letters of the 15th. of May and of the 5th. of this month. The Undersigned requests permission to express the satisfaction with which from the general tenor of these communications he has perceived the disposition of this government...
40To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 26 November 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of laying before the Secretary of State the following brief abstract of the case of Thomas Pagan, a subject of his Britannic Majesty, now confined in the prison of Boston, under an execution issued against him out of the supreme judicial court of Massachusets Bay. To this abstract,...
41To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [12 June 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his compliments to Mr. Jefferson and has the honor of inclosing to him the deposition of the Pilot on board of the Brig Catharine, which he begs Mr. Jefferson to annex to the other deposition upon the subject of the Brigantine’s capture. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); partially dated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 12 June 1793 received 13 June 1793 and so recorded in SJL . Tr (...
42To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 6 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your letter, dated yesterday, and I request you to accept my acknowledgements for the full exposition which you have given me of the intentions of this government, relative to prizes taken by privateers fitted out in ports of the United States. Should any future captures be made by armed vessels of this description, I shall certainly employ every exertion in...
43To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [27 June 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The British Minister presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and has the honor of informing him that he has just learnt that the person who has the care of the Light House on Cape Henry was a witness of the capture of the Ship William. The necessary steps are taken for procuring the deposition of this person on this subject without delay. RC ( DNA : RG 59, NL ); partially dated;...
44To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, [13 April 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hammond presents his most respectful Compliments to the Secretary of state, and has the honor of returning to him the draught of the letter to the President of the U.S., the contents of which certainly meet his full approbation, and are an accurate exposition of his personal sentiments.—Mr. Hammond begs leave to assure the Secretary of State that he is perfectly sensible of this mark of...
45To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to return you my acknowledgements for your very obliging favor of the 28th. Curt., and also for the communication of the Attorney General’s letter on the subject of Mr. Thomas Pagan’s case. Had my interference in behalf of Mr. Pagan been dictated merely by the spontaneous desire of relieving that Gentleman from his present unfortunate situation, I might possibly have been induced...
46To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of the 15th curt., you mention that one of the points, stated in my memorial of the 8th of this month, has been reserved for future deliberation. That point appearing to me to be of the most serious magnitude, I shall be infinitely obliged to you, if you will have the goodness to inform me at what time I may expect to receive the determination of this government upon it; as my...
47To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 30 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last packet, I have received from my Court (in consequence of a communication from me of the reports circulated upon the subject) a corroboration of the truth of the sentiments, which I had the honor of stating to you, as the result of my personal conviction, in my letter of the 14th of December, relative to Mr. Bowles. I am directed to assure this government, in the most explicit...
48To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 19 December 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor, of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 15th curt., and of expressing my perfect approbation of, and concurrence in, the mode, you have suggested, of discussing the several particulars, relative to the nonexecution of the definitive treaty of peace. In conformity to your example, I am now preparing an abstract of the circumstances that appear to me contraventions,...
49Memorial from George Hammond, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, requests permission to recall to the attention of the Secretary of State the memorial which was presented to him on the 2nd. curt., relative to the capture of the British Ship Grange by the French frigate the Embuscade. The subject of that memorial being merely a question of fact, the Undersigned...
50To Thomas Jefferson from George Hammond, 9 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of your obliging permission to communicate to you informally the opinions of Mr. Pagan’s Counsel, which have been transmitted to me from Boston, and also the opinion of Mr. Tilghman of this city, whom I directed Mr. Pagan’s agent here to consult on the proper mode of application for a Writ of error to the supreme Court of the United States. Should the Attorney General coincide...